[Mpls-pm] Frameworks and session management?

[David Naughton]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:11:29AM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Ian Malpass wrote:
> 
> > I started building an application with Catalyst, and I got into a
> > horrible mess when the "helper" scripts produced a mass of code I
> > couldn't understand while I was trying to make use of the session
> > management plugins. Well, actually, most of the problem was down in
> > amongst the many and varied CPAN modules it worked with. Anyway, I tried
> > CGI::Application, and it Just Worked (TM).
> 
> I recently(-ish) built a small app using Catalyst. I _didn't_ use the 
> helper scripts to generate code, IIRC, as I'm not a big fan of code 
> generation. Doing everything "by hand" worked pretty well, and the session 
> plugins more or less worked, though I think there were some bugs back then 
> that are now fixed.
> 
> I used DBIx::Class for the model as an experiment. I wasn't too thrilled 
> with it, but if you're already using Class::DBI it should feel pretty 
> natural. I used Mason for templating, but in more of a pipelined manner, 
> where the Catalyst controller set up variables for the templates to use. I 
> liked the controller bits quite a bit.
> 
> Overall, I'd probably use Catalyst again, though I might try to figure out 
> how to get it and Alzabo to play nice with each other, rather than using 
> DBIx::Class again.
 
I'd love to hear more regarding Alzabo vs. DBIx::Class. Can you be more
specific, maybe even point to an already-existing comparison?

Thanks!

David Naughton
Web Development Manager
Networking & Telecommunications Services
University of Minnesota
 
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